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pray take no notice that we know th'event Of the late battle. I already have Employed my Faction about a peace, and Scipio Is not far off. It shall not be the act Of Hannibal to boast of. When we have Betrayed him to the Romans, the conditions Beside are casie. Attend the Message: It seem's from Hannibal. It's not fit Evils remediless should be lamented. From a misfortune something may arise To prevent greater, if it be applied With and exact consideration O'all occurrents that may make it useful. Relate it then. His welcome If he fore-knew't would give him small encouragement. Incertainty of war! Did Hannibal Solicit peace? l'le seem t'oppose it then, Though it intend a good. The inborn malice Bet wixt our families will not permit me Allow his acts or counsel. By his greatness Mine is eclipsed: and though this overthrow May make him less in popular opinion, His Faction yet is strong. You have stored Enough wealth to maintain another Army That may bring home increase. Pray'let us use Your state, we'll spare your wisdom. On sir: we are patient To hear you speak. Are you so confident You dare affront your Judges? Whence did you Receive commission to move peace with Scipio? It seem's you were Declm'd to coward. Your self. Yet at Capva The fair Salapian Omphale could teach Our Carthaginian Hercules to spin, And mind his distaff; else she would not smile Upon him for his work. Nay you may keep your seat, It well becomes you. Pray observe it Father's. He does affect the Monarchy; he would Altar our government. Would we had Ensnared him better: but his faction wanting A head, it's strengthless. Let a crier publish The sentence of his banishment, that Scipio May take it for our act. We must comply With all occasions that may make our peace A useful good, no voluntary bondage. We must receive the Romans with a show Of less fear, then the straits of our necessity Might excuse manhood for. Most worthy Roman We might excuse the general, and confer The gilded upon some private few, who led By and ambition made this war without Consent from us. Some we have justly punished; And him, by whom (as by the first great mover) The rest were hurried forward, we have banished, To take from Room all cause of after-jealousy. His faction did prevent it, else we had Yielded him up to Scipio. Peace is now The thing we crave, and the conditions No stricter then the Carthaginians Would have proposed, had they been conquerors, And Scipio sued to them. That will take from my suffering. When those we hate in misery bear a partly, Envy grows fat by eating her own heart. Exeunt.
Plot summary
Plot — Hannibal and Scipio
rebukes them, but finds himself attracted to one of the A MESSENGER, who brings news from Spain (1.5) local ladies. News from Spain snaps him out of it: BOMILCAR, Hannibal's kinsman Scipio has taken several Carthaginian cities. He decides SYPHAX, King of Numidia, a young, unmarried man; to attack Rome, but is recalled to Carthage before he later Sophonisba's first husband can do so. Carthage has recently lost an African ally, Masinissa, who has been wooed to the side of Rome. In an effort to counterbalance him, Hannibal goes to Numidia to seek an alliance with its king, Syphax. He also finds Scipio there, and suspects Syphax of treachery, but makes the offer anyway: Syphax's military support in return for marriage to Sophonisba, who was previously promised to Masinissa. The lady herself is reluctantshe still loves Masinissa and thinks herself above a petty king like Syphax-but Syphax is agreeable and the marriage goes ahead. The alliance does not help the Carthaginians: Masinissa defeats Syphax's forces in battle, takes Sophonisba prisoner, and marries her (even though Syphax, her husband, is still alive). Scipio wants her to be sent to Rome, but she takes poison rather than be handed over. Hannibal meets with Scipio and offers him a peace, but Scipio refuses, and Hannibal is routed in the ensuing battle. When he returns to Carthage, the Senate rebukes him for initiating unauthorized peace negotiations, and also suspects him of attempting to set himself up as a king. He leaves Carthage in disgust. When Scipio arrives in triumph, the senators order a pre-emptive announcement that Hannibal has been banished, but their disloyalty to their general only wins Scipio's contempt. Hannibal takes refuge at the court of King Prusias in Bithynia, and offers his services in a policy of resistance to Rome's territorial ambitions. Prusias refuses, preferring not to jeopardize his diplomatic relations with the Romans. A legation arrives from Rome, with Scipio on its personnel. Hannibal learns that the exits from the palace are being guarded, and infers that he is about to be surrendered to the Romans. He forestalls this by taking poison. Scipio plans to retire to country seclusion.